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Great Conversations Start with Great Questions

After 15 years of listening, we know what makes a great conversation: to start by asking great questions. Here are some of our suggestions for getting your StoryCorps interview going.

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Veterans Day #GoogleDoodle

We’ve partnered with Google and YouTube to honor the voices of our nation’s veterans. Discover five #VeteransVoices and record your own.

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Keywording 101

Keywords are descriptive tags that will help future generations of friends and loved ones, historians, and researchers find your interview. Here are tips to help make your keywording great.

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On the Road Again: Announcing The 2019 Mobile Tour

In 2019, the StoryCorps Mobile Tour will make its travel almost 5,000 miles across the United States, making its way to ten cities along the way.

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Celebrating 15 Years of Listening at the StoryCorps Gala

On StoryCorps' fifteenth anniversary, our board, leadership, and supporters gathered at Capitale in New York City to celebrate a decade and a half recording, honoring, and sharing the voices of humanity, and to look together towards StoryCorps' future.

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Sign Up to Record for One Small Step

Our new initiative aims to remind us that we have more in common than divides us, and that treating those with whom we disagree with decency and respect is essential to a functioning democracy.

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SNAP Matters: Stories Recorded with Support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Presenting a selection of coversations we recorded as part of a project focused on changing the the narrative about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the program formerly known as food stamps.

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Stories of Hidden Hunger Before and After Hurricane Harvey, Recorded with Feeding America

We've partnered with Feeding America, the nation’s leading hunger-relief organization, to share the stories of people facing hunger in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas.

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In Memoriam: Gweneviere Mann

We're remembering Gweneviere Mann, a StoryCorps friend and participant who came to us to share her remarkable story about learning to navigate life in a new way following the removal of a brain tumor.

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In Memoriam: John Vigiano Sr.

Remembering StoryCorps participant John Vigiano Sr., a retired FDNY captain who we first met when he and his wife, Jan visited StoryCorps to remember their sons, Joe and John, Jr., who were killed on September 11, 2001.